The Sun. — London, England, 1818-05-19 00:00:00

LITERARY REVIEW. CORIttCrION. A Not•et,. In three V01111)1(.1'. LONGMAN, HURST, 'REEF, ORME, and BROWS. As we entirely approve of this work we sick• with pleasure, the following letter, instead f resuming, us we intended, it farther notice of its merit ourselves. We recommended it warmly to the Public in our own critique, And we are glad of the opportunity of again drawing the atte:ition of our Readers to so interesting a production. - FOR THE SUN. " EDIT fl itter myself you will allow me, thruugh the medium nt your Paper, to cdr , e the following remarks on a %cry meritorious work Yeuit ii I was induced to read by your une lnivocal recommendation, but to which I am persuaded you have not hitherto paid the atten tion which it fairly merits. The wolk to which I allude, though a Novel, is of a serious reli ,gio is cast, and calculated to produce salitary im pressions on those weaker minds, ionised to the effort of thinking—and unprepared for serious application. The object of COtIRECTIoN lc,• as you have justly observed, to expose the errors, and exhibit the fatal consequences, resudtinglrom the modern, or rather, perhaps, the fashionable sys (111 of female educ a tion ; but it has also ano ther Him equally landahle and important, that of offering fur imitation an unexceptionable, but not ilea!, model of female prudence and maternal virtue. In lady FsANcEs Ross and her interest inK family, the Author has presented a deliglotod picture of domestic life—in that school of wisdom and felicity the accomplishments are held suitor (home to the acquisition of knowledge—the cati 'cation of useful pursuits—the exercise of the do. tnestic affections, and above all the formation of those religious principles which are the only per manent basis of happiness and virtue. I lament, for the general interest of the work, that the per sonages are so numerous, and that so little ine quality is admitted in their respective sitnations ; but the leading characters are well discriminated : that of LAURA, the vain Coquette, the unthink ing gamestress, the indiscreet, bust hot unfaith ful, wife of OSSORY is admirably sustained, and affords many useful lessons to females of the higher class, who, from childish impatience of the re :ttric.ions that custom, or, perhaps, decorum, im poses on the single state, often embrace unre deemable captivity, or devote themselves to eter nal disgrace. The following passage contains some momentous truths:- " If you would marry a child, educated on the modern plan, and totally unacquainted with the duties of a wife, could you expect consistency or domestic happiness—what ye sow, that likewise ye shall rears." " Why don't you get married 1" said Captain Alsop to the pretty Miss Tyrwitt, a belle of three winters' standing, " that you may become a leader instead of a follower? See with what an air Lady Ossory takes the upper end of t 4 room, and dispenses her commands to the gaping multo tulle!" Witii an air, indeed'. an air very unbecoming anj• mar. ried woman I" " Oh, you mistake, it is married women alone that may take that air; in yuu it would be boldness, in them it is self- possession." " And in the vocabulary of my day," said Lady Grahame, who just then joined them, "it would have read impudence, absolute want of decency! But the nomenclature of fashion is as much altered as that of chymistry, in the last thirty years." " But who, my dear madam, are to blame," returned the Captain ; " surely lint young creatures educated and in structed but to charm, introduced into society, radiant in yooth and beauty, and married to the most eligible offer the first winter• produces ! of else, like poor Miss Tyrwitt, sport ed at, and obliged to be sour in self-defence. This lovely young creature was introduced last winter and married to a nobleman, than whom not one the peerage is more re spected ; yet where is he ? Ton fashionable to he seen with Isis wife, forsooth, he is now dining with the Duke of ----- at the York fluid ; and this treasure committed to his care is here waltzing with dissipation and vice; from this she will seek relief in yonder hoard of green cloth. She has a bro ther, too, of whom report-speaks highly ;—he is flow on the Continent with his regiment, but for the last four or five months has been wandering over Ireland and Scotland in the society of love and friendstup. She has an uncle too, a truly respectable man ; where is he ?--why, in Hampshire, mourn ing over the loss of a woman lie desp;sed, and who was the torment of his life; and for amusement watching the pro gress of his cattle and poultry-yard; and leaving the progress of his beautiful niece's ruin to 4e watched by cross old bache lor sailors like myselt." " And if he was here, my good captain, he could do wit thing : in her London campaign a host watched over her, and with difficulty brought her through—nut untainted, but just saved from pollution : now she nix's fall, she cannot maintain her height—it is impossible! If she fall without infidelity, well ; she will be the better for it. 1 fretted seven years for the loss of a beautiful and only child, who was never beyond her native mountains: but, for the last ten years, I have every day been thankful my child died inno cent. Neither she nor I then knew the London world; and perhaps she, too, would have drank a poisonous draught from the band of the demon Fashion! That pang is spared rue ; she is in Lcat•en :" I close these strictures by observing that in one respect at least—CoattEcrtoN is .formed on the pLin prescribed by Mr. WILBERFORCE, since it is impossible that the most superficial Reader should doubt whether• the Author is conscientiously a Christian. J.W.P. SHIP NEWS. DEAL, MAY B.—Sailed this morning the Bombay and Charles Grant Indiamen, and the whole of the homeward bound, for the River. PoRTSSIOUTH, MAY !S.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Tibre froni a cruize. His Majesty's ships Vengeur and Rochfurt went out of harbour and anchored at Spithead. FAL,owrit, MAY 16.—Sailed the Marshal Wellington, Gordon, fur Bengal; Mary, Stevens, for Gibraltar and Ma gadore, having on board I. S. Douglas, Esq. and suite, Consul General to the Emperor of Morocco. LAM! NGToN, MAY 18. —Put into our Roads the Peace, — , from Memel, bound to Cork. The Master having died yes terday off St. Alban's, the vessel brought up fur the purpose of interring him to-day. Coen, MAX 14.—Arrived his Majesty's ships Cyrus and Erue. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF !ONG': BENCH, MAT IP. 1.1( ENSING PUBLIC -HOUSES. THE KING V. JOSEPH MERCERON, ESQ. Mr. WYLD shitcd to the Jury (which was Spe cial), that this was au indictment against tire de‘ fentlaut, why was a Mr.gistrate, and who. tiCceN,' girding his duty 111 such character, and in viola tion of a II his sacred functions, did licence one T. Wright to keep a common ale-house, well know ing that he was a most improper person to keep such house. . There were seven other counts in the indictment, which charged the defendant with having similarly conducted himself in seven seve ral instances. Mr. SC/041.171'T, after some very impressive and eloquent EClllalks on the superior advantages which the people of thiS country, as comp tied with every other part of the wink!, possessed in the administration of justice, from the highest officeis down to those of the most humble character; and. alter having particularly described the important duties, as well as the high trust and coal:leiter which were reposed in the Magistrates, proceeded to state, that the charge against the present de fendant, who had held the office of a Magis trate, was that of having cot-1111)0y abused the 'unctions of his sacred situation, He went On to► ►bserve, that att►ong other duties de'volving upon :he defendant was that of granting licencef:to public-houses. The defendant had for many years been a Magistrate for the county of Middlesex, and it was not in one solitary instance that he had violated his ditty as a MaOstrate, but in several instances in the years 1815 and 1816, even after he had received the fullest -information that the houses were kept by highly improper persons ; amongst these were the followi , lg :—The Seven Stars, kept hy T. ltrriliht ; the King's Arms ; the Queen's Head ; the Turk and Stave ; the Adam and Eve ; the Ram and - Magpie ;—every one of which, it would appear, bad been kept by persons who allowed gambling and almost every other sort of excess. In the year 1815, the conduct of the persons who kept those houses because so noto rious, ihat the Constable thought fit to make a list of them, and lay it before the Magistrates at the Quarter Sessions ; notwithstanding which, however, they were all relicensed. Some of them were the property of Mr. Alerceron, and of others he received the rents. _ _ _ Mr. John Whitby Perry was Ilead.constable for the parish of Bethnal-green for 1815. He, ac companied by the beadboroughs of the perish, went round very frequently to inspect the conduct of the different public-houses, which he found were conducted in a very bad manner, by keeping open till one or two in the morning. All mariner of persons of the lower order, young people of both sexes, assembled there ; they were generally playing at cards, - twenty, thirty, or forty at a time. lie knew Mr. Merceron acting RS a Magis trate for their parish. Shortly after the licensing day, in September, 1815. he was sent for by Mr. Merceron to his office in Brick-lane. Mr. Mer reroa asked him whether he had any complaint against victuallers on the nest licensing day.— Witnetis said he certainly had, for he had found many of "the publicans very disorderky. lie men tioned particularly four, and stated - to Mr..Mer ceron what he stated to-day. lie said, he thought their coodact was very reprehensible, and that they ought to be punished for it. lie added, that he must report them before the, Licensing Board. Mr. Mercerou upon this told him to he careful what he did, and not to be litigious, as his reprirt might be the cause of these people losing their licences, and themselves and families be reduced to beggary. Witness told him he understood he should have to take his oath when he came before the Magistrates, and that he - could take his oath correctly. Mr. Merceron replied, he must send to the persons in question, and admonish them, arid that no doubt I should find their conduct bet ter. lie said he would be on the bench on the licensing day. Witness attended on the licensing day. Mr. Merceron and Sir D ‘Villitns were alone present. A question was put to witness by Sir D. WTlhams, how he found the morals of the licensed ? Ile told him he had found them very bad; but he had had an interview with ilhr. Met ccron, awl that he had promised so give them an admonition. Mr M. replied, I have taken care of that, Sir D. ; l have sees, them. Witness was swot n ; he was not asked to name the houses, and no more questions were put. The victuallers were then called in. It it had not beets for what Mr. Mercerun said to hint he should have presented those houses on that day. 'flay licences were re newed to the saute persons. ‘Vi , ness visited the same houses . again, and did not find their beha viour at all improved. He was treated afterwards with insult, and was less attended to than before by the landlords. Matthew Cadoux was one of the beadboroughs of this parish in 1815 ; lie accompanied the last witness several times when he went to visit public houses. The evidence of this witnesi - went to • confirm Mr. Perry'S evidence. Mr. John Smith, also a headborough, gave evi dence to the same effect. Mr. Thomas Field, who was likewise a bead ' borough front April 1815 to April 1816, accom panied Mr. Perry in his inspections ; also gave evidence in confirmation of the preceding wit nesses. Isaac Reynnldson was the constable of St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green, in 1816. During that year he inspected the public•houses. lie knew Mr. Merceron ; he met him on some occasions before the licensing day on that year. Ile asked him how he fo,ind the public-houses ? witness said he found them very disorderly. On the 2d of September (the licensing day), Mr. Merceron called upon him het‘veen nine and eleven : the Magistrates were to meet, he said, " to-clay is the licensing day." Witness said, " Yes, Sir, I am preparing tor it." He asked him if he bad any complaint to make against public houses witness said he had. Ile then asked him what the houses were, and witness gave him a list of six or seven, which - he said were the worst. He asked what was the nature of the complaints ? witness told him they were in a minute book, which he had ore the table. This book contained the minutes of what occurred when he went out at night and On Sundays ; and mentioned the houses he found disnrderly. Mr. 11Terceron took lip the book and looked st it ; he then said, " You must be very particular how you present these houses : if you present these houses before the Magistrates to day, you may he the means of depriving theni and their families of their livelihoods." Witness said he should be very sorry to do them an injury ; upon which Mr. Merceron said, he certainly a ould do them an injury if kc pres,ente4l them,' Irctett it to him (Mr. Mereeron), woufd see the tenants, and chAstise them for their conduct. Witness then asked him, whether, whets he came before the Magistrates, he should not be obliged to take his oath as to the publican;. He told hint yes, but that WAS a mere matter of form. Witness then 'told him he could not take the oath to represent that the publicans were in good ”rder when he kne►v them to he bad.— Mr. Merceron then said, "If you must present them, he careful what you do." He took assay the list of the disorderly houses in his pocket. Witness went afterwards before the Magistrates. Mr. Merceron and three or four more were there ; among others Sir D. Williams. Mr. Merceron was standing beside Sir Daniel, and ►witness was asked if he had any complaint to make against the publicans. He told him the Golden Key was a disorderly house. 'fl►at was all he was asked. He did not mention the test, because Mr. Merceron said he would see the parties and admo nish them ; :witness told Mr. Merceron lie must mention some, and selected the Golden Key ; he did not know that Mr. Merceron was the pro prietor of any public-houses. Several other witnesses were e x amined to the same effect. The evidence from the Report of the Commit tee of the House of Commons was then read, from which it appeared .that the defendant was the owner of several public-houses—among which were the Seven Stars, White Swan, King's Arms, and others, of which he produced a list. lie also produced lists of other public-houses, of which received the rents, ineludi:rg the Turk and Slave, &c. Mr. TorPING addressed the Jury in behalf of the defendant, and commented upon the evidence of the several witnesses.—Mr. SCARLETT replied. The Judge, in summing up, described the duties of a Licensing Magistrate, which, if violated in the manner stated, were productive of the most dangerous consequences. The Jury immediately returned a verdict of— Guilty. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are sorry that we have displeased our Correspondent ANTI-MENDAX, by the repetition of reports, for which we hare better authority than he is aware of. The Condition, too, upon which he grounds the improbability of the reports iit question, is not likely to happen, judging from present 'appearances, till a distant period. _ The CHARACTLR of Wittrazu PITT To-morrow ; and, if pos. tittle, The SEVENTH NETICAL EPISTLE to the EDINBURGH lityltwEfts, and . other Favours. THEATRICAL REGISTER. P•erfurnterl Late Night. THEATRE ROYAL, DKURT-LANE.-43e1traill : Bertram, Mr. Kean; Intogine, Miss Macauley. After which (4 , 1 time), The Blaeltarnoor's Head. THEATRE ROTA 1., COV ENT-GA RDENT..•pIe Point of Honour Chevalier de St. Franc, Mr. Young; Bartha, Miss O'Neill. After which, December and May. To which was added, Harlequin Gulliver. • M Anniven-1 Dublin, 1 France, 1 tiarnburgh. Pu►-1 Waterford, I Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Lisboa. PRICE 01 rHis DAY A? r wv.t.vv. o'cL4sCK. Bank Stock-- , „ 98041 etin Si per Cent. BBl A prr Crnt. Red 7M if India Stuck.... .....232 233 3 per Cent. Cons.. • 7944ii India Bonds... .995. 102 s. pr. 4 per (tents 97 97 limt. Bills, 2d...18s 20s. pr. 3 per Cent. N. Ann. 108 1071 Ditto, iii.l.. 203.225. pr. 1031 I I Otnn►unl ——• • iii Pr. Bank 1.. Ann..... 20 3-IGthsi Cuns. fur Account.... 79iiii HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 3 minutes after 2. Evening, 26 m►nutes after 2 THE SUN. 11/LEM terns DICERS rALium AULDEAT LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1813. HEIL MAJESTY. This morning the following Bulletin was issue' respecting the QUEEN'S Health : " The QUEEN was very much indisposed al day yesterday. Her MAJESTY is better this morn ing, having passed a good night. " FRANCIS NIILMAN. " HENRY HALFORD. " Queen's Palace, May 19, 1818, past 10, A.m." We have the pleasure to add, in addition to the Bulletin, that her MAJESTY slept from last night till four o'clock this morning, and has had no return of spasm. Last night we raceived the Paris Papers of Friday last, and this morning those of Saturday. The Budget has soon been disposed of in the Chamber of Peers. The discussion was opened and dosed on Thursday; the different articles agreed to without atnendment, and the Projet adopted, 108 to 2. This is the last public busi ness of the Session ; some minor matters only remained to he gone through previous to the pro rogation. The Chamber met on Friday, and ad journed till Satarday, for which day also the De puties were summoned. A communication from the Government was to be made on Saturday, which, it was understood, would relate to the closing of the Session. The remains of the late Prince de CONDH are to be interred at St. Denis. A dreadful inundation, which is stated to have been without parallel since the 14th century, took lrlactK at Munster-Eiffel, in the Duchy of J u lierg• on the 2d instant, in consequence of the over• flow of the Erft ; a number of hou ses, bartog, and stables, were swept away, and scarcely 014 of the dwellings in the town remained uninjured; quantities of merchandizq, and proYisiol lgie); lost', and .sewal iudividAliiveresdrowiSefr The Duke and Duchess of CAbietupct, wbose marriage took place at Cassel on the 7111 arrived at Frankfort on the 9th, wher e also t—, Queen Dowager of WIRTEMBURG, un der the tiue M the Countess of GRONINGEN, had come to h ave h an interview with her brother, and likewise 'cito her sister, the Hereditary Princess of ii°S HoMBURG, who was expected at Frankfurt f° Englaud. The Duke de BOURBON, now Prince de Cor 4PE ' arrived at Paris nil Friday last. The fire at Salzburg destroyed 104 heroe s public edifices. Tile damage is estimated 8t wards of 200,000/. sterling. • been Some Founders and others, at Lyons, h ave recently arrested on the charge of manufactor'" Busts, in copper, of BUONAPARTE. of The Church of Juvelise, in the Departniel ti th e Is Metnthe, was destroye4 by lightning in night of the 3d instant.' ir os The Emperor of RUSSIA set out from W 4 on the 30th ult. for the Crimea. 0 th'e The Emperor of AUSTRIA quitted Fium e 0- 0 4th instant to proceed to Zara, the chief t o 41 ~ c of Dalmatia. The Empress w a s to P r ot thither by water. FIVE PER CENTS. Thursday Friday . 68 f. sSc• 4Oc- DEFRKRED STOCK. Thursday Friday .. 60 f. gO t ' ..so f. sse' EXCHANGK ON LONDON One Month Three Months.. .231. 1s• - ' 51". The Letter which %% e received from ° tit 11- ft respondent at Paris this day, is dated th e 16 !it instant ; but as it came late, and rather 0 11(s sy s observations and reflections than i nte lligen ce ', shall postpone the insert ion of it till to-In°fr°d„ The « Official Bulletins," as they arc Stilea' t ;i l BOLIVAR'S victories, have been readily 01°130. by most of our competitors, though, eV el l 4f ; 0 0 ing that those documents may be fonti`R truth, yet, as they come from one part9' they iff Tl , ‘ tro l t h d , reasonable objects of suspicion. that so much deception has been practised, b4,10' by the RoyaLirrg and the ltavoLTEs&. t llst O f reliance can be placed on the Proclan lati° of ° either. heartily wishing well to the catise , b i good Government all over the world, we sh ° w it glad to hear that the Revolters have secured top, independence, if they have really been so_Olc'lool pressed as they have stated,and if theMotberel jai really intended to pursue the same sitst ett % ° ,; l ,o ll justice and tyranny, which has been charg° rti it, but we know that incendiaries of the world, whose crimes or whose Itt )4°l.l° , t 0 mischievous principles have compelled then th . abandon their own country, have j olnec V I) Spanish Insurgents, and probably ha ve ° try chiefly instrumental in stimulating thee`' p etit. tempt to throw off the former Goveril- tie BoLIVAR is a man of Gig di s posit i°ll. .. a tics i ass well known in London for detOcflotti principles, and an intriguing spirit. was it all that we have beard of him, be e m le desperate circustances, and was likely' ititeicg to better his condition, to have taken 3° oo part in support of that very Govern tnettr o , hers now attempting so strenuously t° fiver ba t 644 We know nothing of the man himself' N'o' have been assured that he was intiniter:edirli nected with, aid even employed in , the Jacobin Print.of this Nietropolis. Jf thi' cs ti and we have no reason for. doubt, c ons ° source of our information, what confide oil/ be placed in such a man ? His conoesi°.s 11 pOl i the Paper alluded to is a proof dus t 111 tlcal principles were such as to render 0 1 " l. ome ttli gerous character under any regular 6`)/eiwl° °o He carried out to the discontented Coi O f cargo of combustible matter, a nd it ` ctis t e i , : ir se : him, by specious arguments, to increase ottt ditious fire, and by degrees to spresa (4 1 % co 0 10 throughout the country. If this ma n "' 100 0 01 succeed, he would, perhaps, prove a 1 -I ° B°s nt s, or, if he, indeed, possesses military ti* '0 tle BUONAPARTR, and hence might gives °reel bided followers too much rea son to r CO I that they overthrew an ancient and a regiii:lerfiti vernment, in order to place themselves es of tyrannical yoke of a desperate and al " h . it b ( start. We, therefore, repeating our e 3 o r. 41 c,l e ,' for the establishment of a good s tabl e ;f il o ( meat in the revolted Colonies, do n o ot O il '. I t ° , di cessary to imitate our Competitors, t'' o I. ' “ Coli:mns with accounts, which, un der ar ttl affected official authenticity, are pv11)1114 eert,i t i ly Pr 011,4,4 tan " 1 4 me ntal in t e lli gerivt 6"1.115t, ~4 "k tT. i e City :s cribed fi(l th tbf 11, e col' c 4,„ et • i.. " , t Pe t . 41, 4 Po l i bb ( 1 , tti tii tin t that i , tt l Ples th 't I tte e % t i t ' ay q 1 itq t ii r , : tql I tti t‘ t at